Publication: The Ability to Risk: Reading Skills For Beginning Students of ESL

• Noone, Leslie

LCCN: 85-3468

In developing efficient reading strategies, risk involves
continuing to read in order to understand the main ideas
without knowing the precise meaning of each word.  In THE
ABILITY TO RISK the author teaches you how to go beyond the
word-by-word decoding process to form and test hypotheses. 
Skills, such as locating the main idea, scanning, skimming,
critical thinking, inferencing, information gathering, and
understanding vocabulary in context, are taught.  These
special skills will give you the confidence you need to
risk, to read efficiently.

Among its features, the book:
* teaches reading strategies and skills including how to
find and use examples, how to use appositives and anaphoric
referents, and how to assimilate information from various
parts of a passage
* builds the confidence needed to risk while reading
* provides a solid foundation for reading more
sophisticated prose